All quotes are from WE ARE THE FIRE by Sam Taylor.
1. You have power over these flames. You decide where they go, what shape they take. Not everything that comes from fire is terrible and ugly.
2. Fear alone doesn’t end a war.
3. She wasn’t sure what hurt worse: the memories of what had been stolen, or the fear that they could only ever be memories.
4. What good was any freedom they might claim, if along the way they stood back and let other people suffer? That wasn’t freedom.
5. When smoking out an enemy, don’t build a fire stronger than you can control.
6. You have to be bolder. Stronger. You can’t crumble under every setback.
7. In the grand scheme of the world we may be only copper crowns, but we alone can challenge the shrikes.
8. A person can have more than one home. There’s the one we’re born with, and it will always matter. But home is also what we make of the people we’re with.
9. Desperation only makes you look guilty.
10. Sitting back wasn’t safety, wasn’t living. It wasn’t protecting anyone but the people who already possessed too much power.
11. When you act like it’s impossible, that’s what keeps it out of your reach.
12. Sometimes you have to take a second look to find out what someone’s really up to.
13. You can’t make up stories and leave them chasing smoke forever. If you promise troublemakers, they’ll want names. They’ll want someone to burn.
14. Maybe being good and moral wasn’t enough to bring down a system so deeply entrenched in wrong.
15. Strategy was always key.
16. You take care of yourself because no one else will. Otherwise, you die.
17. Remember all you come from. Remember the people who love and stand by you. You will overcome and thrive when you lean on the shoulders of the strong people at your side.
18. We were only trying to do what seemed right in the worst circumstances.
19. Maybe everything you’ve done hasn’t been perfect. But you still have more to give. There’s so much left to you in this world. Don’t keep yourself from it.
20. Sometimes life’s about making new homes.
21. A leader gave himself up for his people, if the situation required it.
22. There’s a place in this world for us, if we make it ourselves. We are what’s left. If we look out for each other, we’ll never be alone. That’s as much as anyone can ask for.
23. We can’t control anyone else’s reactions. Only our own.
24. She was two sides of the same coin—the gentlest soul he knew, yet also the fiercest. Maybe one didn’t truly exist without the other.
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